Holy moly that is one hell of a cool snail.

What excess? More is cheaper.

What does that have to do with anything? DeepL is fucking amazing. So is OCR. Because there are areas where it does not work or has not been optimized for you think there is no productivity increase at all?

Stop building so many straw mans. It is a simple question.

No productivity increase? What? For waiters maybe.

How do we know that actually happened? Is there a video? Who recorded it?

So did I.

But he used a paper clip, that is steel.

Correct. Ads work extremely well. The simple and short explanation is that most people are dumb.

So if they were only 2, then who took the picture?

Without chatGPT I could not have repaired things where I simply threw the datasheet at it and got code to reprogram it, like for an BMS. I could not digitize data streams by sniffing I2C. I could not use computer vision to decode a display. I could not make control and data logging interfaces for machines, turning decade old shit into good-as-new just based on their serial interface. Etc. Etc.

What kind of nonsense comparison is that? Somewhat off topic, borderline straw man.

People still have their job, better tools enable people to do more things in their free time. Some even switch professions later on, once they have enough experience. Lowering the bar (invest, skill, …) is simply a good thing.

Everyone could always learn woodworking, weaving, sewing, smithing, … that is not an argument. The point is that better tools make it easier to learn/perform/perfect these skills. Today anyone with a little torch and a hammer can play around with steel. 300 years ago you had to at least take on an apprenticeship to ever get to do that. Sewing with a sewing machine is so much faster, there is not much time to invest before you can make your own clothes.

Not everyone has 100s of hours free time to sink into this and that skill “the purist way”. Any tool that makes the learning curve more shallow and/or the process itself easier/cheaper/… helps democratizing these things.

You argue as if everyone needs to be a super duper software architect, while most people just want to create some tool or game or whatever they think of, just for themselves.

This is Lemmy, bitching about AI is the norm.